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OwenHargreaves here!
I've been a little less active in the last week or so than my 24/7 standard i have, although some of you might not have noticed. I was in the middle of mid-terms and had a lot on my mind. However, I now have a week off, I'm recharged, and I'm ready to kick some serious butt.
We need a fresh new injection of love and happiness in Canada, so I think it's time we pull the plug on our old offsite http://esimcan.freeforums.org/index.php and make ourselves some new digs. Talking on IRC is effective for chatting and coordination, but an offsite is vital to post canadian-only info for war plans, economic decisions and political maneuvers. We need a headquarters that we can all go to, and talk freely with each other and have everyone on the same page. If anyone wishes to volunteer to create a forums-based website, let me know. It doesn't have to be anything complex or complicated.
We also need more people. I have found someone capable of baby booming and I've offered him a tidy sum of gold if he can bring over a ton of Canadians. The terms I gave him were 0.5G per Canadian he recruits as long as there's more than 50. This baby boom will begin later on this week.
In coordination with that, we will finalize Canada Education and iron out a solid noob-help program. Tarsieg, my vCP has volunteered to take charge of all this and help set the stage for the influx of new citizens. We will make ready all the academy MUs and any other MUs that can take in free members, so we can accommodate all the new players. Canada Org has accumulated over 1000 Q5 food and we will begin an operation to supply 5 Q5 food to all new players daily until they reach level 7. This leads me to my next and final point.
I will rewrite the welcome message with the help of any congressmen interested to include these new modifications and improvements to properly welcome the new players to our fantastic maple syrupy community.
This is it for now, but stay tuned as I update you in the days to come! Some big things are coming to Canada
As always, feel free to send me a message, leave a comment or reach me on IRC on Rizon on the channel: #e-sim.can
Stay fresh!
Owen
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PART 2 OF THIS ARTICLE!
Wow! 2 articles in 1! Bet ya didnt see that coming! Unless you saw the bold lettering and skipped right down here. If this is the case, shame on you! Go back to the top and read the rest first!
I'm looking at you... yeh you... behind that computer screen. You better not be cheating or else I'll send theorules over for a visit and you don't want theorules to come over for a visit. Trust me.
Onward to some real talk here gents! Yesterday was the MU damage contest and The Wolf Pack had enough of Canadian Clutch dominating Canada, so for the first time they stepped up big, and crushed the competition winning 1st place by miles, nawww kilometers!
Here were the results:
1. The Wolf Pack - 16,598,166
2. Canadian Clutch - 4,841,364
3. Cavalry - 4,426,694
4. CCI recruiting - 4,223,815
5. The Zombie Horde - 3,904,415
The gold rewards will soon be handed out!
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Before I end this very oddly structured article, I wanted to leave you all with a few final words.
Some say that e-sim is dying. Some say that e-sim is already dead. We were at 25 000 citizens 2 months ago and are now nearly twice that size. There's not much sign of that changing and e-sim might eventually get shutdown, whether it's in a few months or a year or even longer.
But what really matters and what we always must remind ourselves is that this is a game, we are all here to unwind from RL stress and struggles, and dead or not, I will certainly have a blast until the dying breath of this game if it's the case.
So instead of depressingly reading articles of people quitting, seeing people whine that e-sim is flushed down the toilet with railman's poop, or being surrounded by general boredom and negativity, we here in Canada will party until the very end.
So join #e-sim.can, send me a message, and find out just how fun e-sim can be
With love,
Owen
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About the game:
USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
Work for the good of your country and see it rise to an empire.
Activities in this game are divided into several modules. First is the economy as a citizen in a country of your choice you must work to earn money, which you will get to spend for example, on food or purchase of weapons which are critical for your progress as a fighter. You will work in either private companies which are owned by players or government companies which are owned by the state. After progressing in the game you will finally get the opportunity to set up your own business and hire other players. If it prospers, we can even change it into a joint-stock company and enter the stock market and get even more money in this way.
In E-Sim, international wars are nothing out of the ordinary.
Become an influential politician.
The second module is a politics. Just like in real life politics in E-Sim are an extremely powerful tool that can be used for your own purposes. From time to time there are elections in the game in which you will not only vote, but also have the ability to run for the head of the party you're in. You can also apply for congress, where once elected you will be given the right to vote on laws proposed by your fellow congress members or your president and propose laws yourself. Voting on laws is important for your country as it can shape the lives of those around you. You can also try to become the head of a given party, and even take part in presidential elections and decide on the shape of the foreign policy of a given state (for example, who to declare war on). Career in politics is obviously not easy and in order to succeed in it, you have to have a good plan and compete for the votes of voters.
You can go bankrupt or become a rich man while playing the stock market.
The international war.
The last and probably the most important module is military. In E-Sim, countries are constantly fighting each other for control over territories which in return grant them access to more valuable raw materials. For this purpose, they form alliances, they fight international wars, but they also have to deal with, for example, uprisings in conquered countries or civil wars, which may explode on their territory. You can also take part in these clashes, although you are also given the opportunity to lead a life as a pacifist who focuses on other activities in the game (for example, running a successful newspaper or selling products).
At the auction you can sell or buy your dream inventory.
E-Sim is a unique browser game. It's creators ensured realistic representation of the mechanisms present in the real world and gave all power to the players who shape the image of the virtual Earth according to their own. So come and join them and help your country achieve its full potential.
Invest, produce and sell - be an entrepreneur in E-Sim.
Take part in numerous events for the E-Sim community.
